Jack Pott – The Escape. A high speed pursuit game to dodge the police!

Jack Pott – The Great Escape is a funky and stylized racing game where you have to escape a succession of police vehicles. Each level has you dodging cars in a high-speed pursuit, where you have to bob and weave between traffic and cause the police cars to crash and explode. Fast-paced and nail-bitingly addictive, it’s a great time killer that’s also incredibly easy to play!

Pros & Cons:

Graphics are a little basic, especially compared to something like Reckless Getaway and the ads are a little persistent.

Features:

Jack Pott – The Great Escape, if you were to coin it succinctly, is a like a visually simpler version of Polarbit’s Reckless Getaway, but with added weapons and cool bonus items. Where you perhaps lose some of the visual glory, it is made up for with additional gameplay elements. The game is played in an aerial view, not unlike the original Grand Theft Auto game. You race through various levels of traffic while being chased by the cops. By weaving through carefully you can subsequently drag cops into other traffic, making the cars explode. You essentially have to destroy a set number of police cars to complete the level.

While you can mostly rely on clever moves to out-think the pursuing vehicle, levels get harder as the police become faster and more manoeuvrable. It’s lucky then you have such an arsenal of cool bonus items to deploy to help yourself. You can use a speed boost- great if they are right on your tail. There are bombs which you drop for them to hit and oil patches which make them skid and lose ground. Additionally, you can use a shield bonus which protects you for a short period. You have a set amount of life which you can lose through frequent crashing so be careful with it.

After each successful level you get to play a bandit machine for more items. Sometimes you’re lucky and get some cool items, other times you get nothing, but it’s a nice extra facet to the gameplay. Jack Pott – The Escape is alarmingly addictive and very easy to play. While the in-game graphics are a little basic, this gameplay itself goes some way to make up for it.

Fun Factor:

Jack Pott – The Escape is loads of fun. Being able to carefully drag pursuing vehicles into other traffic is great and using bonus items is also very cool.

Addictive:

Yes, very! I think because it’s so easy to play (just left, right and on-screen select for weapons) and so incredibly rewarding, it’s a hard game to put down. I’ve found myself picking it up for a quick session only to find nearly an hour has passed… Not good for productivity!

Graphics:

While the visuals will never really dazzle you, they still look great and are well designed. The game has a kind of 70’s car-chase theme which works really well with gameplay and gives the title real style.

Accelerometer, Vibration & Sound:

The sound effects and music are utterly superb, excellently done.

AndroidTapp.com Rating

(4.4 out of 5)

Should you Download Jack Pott – The Great Escape? Oh definitely give it a go. It’s very captivating and hard to put down. As explained, the in-game graphics aren’t out of this world, but the superb gameplay easily makes up for it.